Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the sensitive nature of this service the pre-issuance review is necessary to give additional assurance that the firm policy is adhered to and that the firm 's report is clear and responds to the needs of the client . |
| 2 | She 's blond , Sloaney , utterly vacuous and gossips on the phone . |
| 3 | Each one is a potential hypnotic and competes for the attention . |
| 4 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 5 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 6 | My prognosis is extremely grave and follows from the diagnosis , that these are consequences of a divided society . |
| 7 | The gallery canopy roof , which adjoins the house , is very old and lies below the house roof . |
| 8 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 9 | Your Maria Cork [ Healthcare , Beckton ] is so helpful , charming and comes to the bank promptly and early . |
| 10 | He traces the origins of contemporary attitudes to professionalism and public services , to the Victorian period , and argues that the model we have inherited is outmoded and stands in the way of improving professionally relationships . |
| 11 | What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history . |
| 12 | Each case is individual and depends on the people , entities and issues involved . |
| 13 | It 's square , blue and white , generally weather resistant and belongs to the genus Hague . |
| 14 | The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts . |
| 15 | The first person goes round the outside and pats on the head those sitting saying ‘ duck ’ each time . |
| 16 | Effective management requires accurate timber inventories , data on productivity and predictions of future growth ; determination of the rotation age , which is the age of a stand at harvest , is also crucial and depends on the species and the time period required for optimum growth . |
| 17 | Sometimes a group rebels against the rigidity of the formal stage too early and oscillates between the chaotic and formal stages . |
| 18 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 19 | He has elevated inscriptions to a new seriousness because the wording of his own work is not bland and ranges from the delphic to the painfully controversial . |
| 20 | Wait a few days till dumbo gets bored and strolls in the streets . |
| 21 | My right hon. Friend is right and speaks with the authority of many years ' membership of the House . |
| 22 | Taken as a whole , the tax and transfer system takes money from the rich and gives to the poor . |
| 23 | Quartz , on the other hand , is the most stable and crystallizes at the lowest temperature . |
| 24 | It sees no antithesis between the liberal and the technical and contends for the wider acceptance of the truth that the latter will be of no lasting value to the community unless the people of this country are adequately equipped to participate actively in its government and culture . |
| 25 | sh , he 's really sort of like , dead brainy and goes to the child-minder and goes to school and whatever ! |
| 26 | The system is called PAM-Stamp and runs on the RS/6000 . |
| 27 | You 've got ta to do it so it 's clear , concise and puts across the information that you feel is important to get across |
| 28 | Hot water is even more scarce and depends on the weather , or whether or not a fuse has blown . |
| 29 | Love is subtle and grows in the heart only slowly and after long and painstaking work . |
| 30 | The main house is long and low and dates from the 16th and 17th centuries . |